A/HRC/RES/58/18 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 16 April 2025 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-eighth session 24 February–4 April 2025 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 3 April 2025 58/18. Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments, Reaffirming the primary responsibility of States to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil their obligations under the human rights treaties to which they are party and other human rights agreements to which they have subscribed, Recalling that the prohibition of torture is a jus cogens norm and that freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is a non-derogable right under international law, including international human rights law and international humanitarian law, which must be respected and protected under all circumstances, including in times of international and non-international armed conflict or disturbance and tension or any other public emergency, that the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is affirmed in relevant international instruments, including the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, to which Nicaragua is a State Party, and that legal and procedural safeguards against such acts must not be subject to measures that would circumvent this right, Reaffirming the importance of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, of which Nicaragua is a State Party, as a means of preventing and reducing statelessness and ensuring the protection of stateless persons, Recalling its resolutions 40/2 of 21 March 2019, 43/2 of 19 June 2020, 46/2 of 23 March 2021, 49/3 of 31 March 2022 and 52/2 of 3 April 2023 on the promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua, Recalling also that the Human Rights Council shall, inter alia, contribute, through dialogue and cooperation, towards the prevention of human rights violations and respond promptly to human rights emergencies, Welcoming the oral updates, interim oral updates and comprehensive reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua, presented to the Human Rights Council since its forty-first session, and the reports GE.25-06133 (E)